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UNIT4 Set to Disrupt Performance Management Software Market

Unique Low Cost, Rapidly Deployed Business Analytic Solutions

SLIEDRECHT, The Netherlands, Jan. 19, 2012 /CNW/ - UNIT4, the world's
leading provider of business software for Businesses Living IN Change
(BLINCTM), today announced plans to disrupt the performance management software
market in 2012 with a completely new approach to delivering business
analytics tools for the enterprise. UNIT4 Business Analytics Apps
promise turnkey, rapidly deployed, business performance solutions
available on a pay-as-you-use basis from a dedicated app store.

UNIT4's new strategy addresses the three most challenging requirements
of organizations attempting to improve their business performance via
today's analytic solutions - cost, speed and measurement. While large
enterprise software vendors SAP and Oracle have bolted heavy-weight
business intelligence tools on top of their already complex enterprise
resource planning (ERP) solutions, UNIT4 is reinventing the business
analytics landscape.

UNIT4 Business Analytics Apps will be a performance-industry game
changer. Their simplicity, speed of deployment and pricing model are
unique to the market, enabling a business analytics platform and
turnkey performance templates for every customer, deployed across any
device, on a pay-as-you-use basis from a dedicated app store. They will
provide rapid targeted response to business change, emerging risks or
new opportunities, and since they are integrated with UNIT4's Agresso
Business World ERP and Coda Financials solutions, a change made in one
application automatically flows to the other applications. Customers
will also benefit from a built-in social communication tool that
enables them to collaborate around reports.

"Today's enterprise performance management (EPM) or corporate
performance management (CPM) solutions have been as costly and complex
as legacy ERP," said Ton Dobbe, Vice president, Product Marketing for
UNIT4. "Having spent millions on these systems over numerous years,
companies are still struggling to get meaningful information out as
their business requirements have changed since installing the ERP, but
the task of making the changes to the system has proven too complex. As
a result, their business analytics is too often out of date and lacking
any meaningful insight. UNIT4 has led the way in low cost of change ERP
and is bringing this much needed foresight to the performance
management space."

Customers will be able to download a pre-built solution from the app
store that is virtually ready to use, then choose if they want to add
tailoring to the solution themselves-- or select a turnkey professional
services bundle of five, 10 or 20 days, depending on their
requirements, that guarantees completion. Per user/per month pricing
ensures that UNIT4's approach is low-cost, no-risk, customizable and
easy to change. This contrasts with the usual huge up-front investment
and months it takes to deploy traditional performance management
solutions, plus the financial and time investment required to make
subsequent changes.

In March 2012, the first apps will be rolled-out via a selective
customer review program. From June, these solutions will be made
available globally via the UNIT4 App Store along with apps designed for
various service intensive markets such as local government, education,
not for profit and professional services. Cloud advancements will
ultimately provide a standardized environment for cloud cube analytics.

Industry Analyst Sees 'Game Changing' Possibilities

"It has always been easier to get data into ERP than to get actionable
information out," said Cindy Jutras, principal, Mint Jutras. "Much of
the value is left on the table with information that is largely
untapped. With broad, deep and multi-purpose applications, most
decision-makers simply don't know where to start. By creating these
bite-size apps that address a specific need, UNIT4 allows knowledge
workers and executives to simply download an app, quickly tailor it and
satisfy their specific business need. This promises no-risk, potential
high-return and a rapid return on investment, and UNIT4 is extending
performance management beyond senior management to middle managers and
mobile workers, enabling a powerful and low-cost way to re-tool
everyday routines to be more efficient."

UNIT4 is a global business software and services company aimed at
helping dynamic public sector, and commercial services organizations to
embrace change simply, quickly and cost effectively in a market sector
it calls 'Businesses Living IN Change' (BLINC)TM. The Group incorporates a number of the world's leading change
embracing software brands including Agresso Business World, our flagship ERP suite for mid-sized services intensive organizations
and Coda, our best-of-class financial management software.

With operations in 17 European countries, as well as 7 countries across
North America, Asia Pacific and Africa and sales activities in several
other countries, its revenue was €421.7 million in 2010. UNIT4 is
headquartered in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands and has over 4,000
employees. It is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and is included in the
Amsterdam Midcap Index (AMX).

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